The lab is equipped with five “Create” robots — essentially a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner paired with a laptop; three hand-eye systems; one Chiara (which looks like a large metal crab); and 10 LEGO robots paired with the Sony Handy Board robotic controller.

For many of us here at Rensselaer, December brings with it an onslaught of year-end reviews, top-10 lists, “best-of” compilations, and a host of other collections of newspaper, magazine, broadcast, and online articles that attempt to capture important events and accomplishments from 2010. If anything, the growing use of social media and the rapid expansion of the World Wide Web has accelerated the trend. Looking at these lists gave us pause, and led us to peer back at the year that was at Rensselaer.

Chris Letchford Chris Letchford’s Research Includes Wind Power Generation, Wind Climatology

Rensselaer Vice President for Research Honored for Leadership in High-Performance and Grid Computing

Computer Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Work With Elsevier To Enhance Scientific Research via the World Wide Web

NSF Grant Supports Novel Cognitive Science Exploration at Rensselaer Video podcast of research as part of the Creative Artificially-Intuitive and Reasoning Agent project.

Listen to audio podcast on Pankaj Karande's research.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Senior Research Specialist and graduate student Aaron Smith was recently recognized by LD+A, the magazine of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), as one of 25 rising stars in the lighting profession.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumnus and His Wife Add $1 Million to Previous Unrestricted Gift of $1.4 Million Two private patrons for the arts have added another $1 million to their ongoing support for the creation of new works at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.